Skykomish/Snohomish pinks/cohos

Fished the mouth of the Sky this weekend. Plenty of pinks and even a few silvers were moving through the mouth. Caught quite a few pinks on egg sucking leeches but the silvers seemed determined to shoot through pretty quickly and we had no takers...

Plenty of fish there right now if you want some fun action on the fly rod...

Go to Monroe on 522. Take the first Monroe exit and take the first right at the roundabout, I can't remember the street name but it goes right by the high school there. Follow the curvy road for a few miles and after you cross under the highway bridge you'll see truck pulled off on the side of the road. Park near there and walk under the bridge on the trail. You hike up through some brush on the side of a slough and walk for about 10 minutes, before coming out into the dry part of a riverbed. Keep walking and you'll see the mouth of the Sky where it feeds into the Snohomish.

Either wade out in the mouth and target the fish there, or go upstream on the Sky about 100 yards. There's some nice water, 3 or 4 feet deep where you'll see the fish moving up. We swung egg sucking leeches and other flies in front of the pods and had good success. Floating lines with a few split shot about 12 inches up the 9 foot leader did the trick.

Sometimes the fish are not aggressive for an hour or more, but eventually they seem to turn on for no particular reason. Enjoy....